This story has been updated with new reporting.

No show of the Peak TV era developed the reputation Mad Men did for attention to detail . Every week, fans combed the show’s production design for clues that could illuminate the thinking of Don, Peggy, and the rest of the extended Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce family. So it’s a shame that the show’s splashy 4K rerelease on HBO Max was horribly botched yesterday.

The rewatchers who checked back in with the show as soon as it hit HBO Max on December 1 noticed problems immediately. In the famous season-one episode that ends with Roger Sterling drunkenly puking up oysters all over the office floor in front of prospective clients, HBO Max’s 4K version clearly shows a set technician holding a hose to simulate the vomit in the side of the

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